Soldier-specific modification of the mandibular motor neurons in termites

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Ishikawa, Yuki ^a   Aonuma, Hitoshi ^a   Miura, Toru ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN GANGLION; BRAIN SIZE; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGEAL GANGLION; HISTOLOGY; HODOTERMOPSIS SJOSTEDTI; ISOPTERA; JAW MOVEMENT; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MORPHOGENESIS; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; SOLDIER (INSECT); SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WORKER (INSECT); ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; GANGLION CYST; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

HEXAPODA; HODOTERMOPSIS SJOESTEDTI; ISOPTERA; TERMOPSIDAE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GANGLION CYSTS; ISOPTERA; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MORPHOGENESIS; MOTOR NEURONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 50249169775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002617     Document Type: Article

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